{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-stands-life-secures-vote-his-amendment-defund-planned-parenthood/", "Dr. Rand Paul Stands for Life, Secures Vote on His Amendment to Defund Planned Parenthood", "2018-08-23", "2018", "2018-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nAugust 23, 2018\n\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 This afternoon, after speaking on the Senate floor to expose Republicans for blocking his efforts to protect life so they could instead greatly expand the welfare-warfare state, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) secured a vote on his amendment to stop taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood and other entities that perform abortions.\n\nThough the Senate chose to continue the status quo in a 45-48 vote, Dr. Paul\u2019s stand forced the Senate on the record on what government is doing with the American people\u2019s money.\n\n\u201cWhile I am disappointed in the outcome of this vote, I will never apologize for standing up for life. If it took exposing the preference of so many in my own party to continue reckless spending over protecting the innocent, it was a fight worth having,\u201d said Dr. Paul.\n\nDr. Paul\u2019s amendment would not have prevented health care providers that do not perform abortions from continuing to receive federal funding for women\u2019s health services. Affected entities would have been eligible to have their funding restored after they stopped performing abortions.\n\nDuring his speech, Dr. Paul had noted that \u201c[t]he dirty little secret is that Republican leadership is blocking my amendment to defund Planned Parenthood\u201d by filling the amendment tree, later saying, \u201cThe question is, what is more important to these Republicans? Saving lives or spending money?\u201d\n\nYou can watch Dr. Paul\u2019s blistering speech that ultimately secured a vote HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:04:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-stands-life-secures-vote-his-amendment-defund-planned-parenthood/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7988917641341686, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}